Throughout the ages, there have been many sinners in history, but there is a view that Zhao Kuangyin should be regarded as one of the biggest sinners in history.
Throughout the ages, there have been many sinners in history, but there is a view that Zhao Kuangyin should be regarded as one of the biggest sinners in history. When discussing Zhao Kuangyin's sins, we must start from the ancient unjust case of the national hero Yue Fei and Zhao Kuangyin's ruling national policy.
Although Yue Fei was killed by Zhao Shuo and the traitor Qin Juniper in 166 years after Zhao Kuangyin's death, in fact, as early as a century and a half ago, Zhao Kuangyin had already sown the bane of this unjust prison for thousands of years.
The Song Dynasty's highly centralized system, the national policy of promoting literature and suppressing martial arts, and the spineless foreign policy of "spending money to buy taiping", especially the ideological system established by the Song Dynasty, were the fundamental reasons for the demise of the Song Dynasty and the fundamental cause of Yue Fei's death.
From the perspective of economic and cultural development, the Great Song Empire can be called brilliant, and its degree of development is no less than that of the Han and Tang Dynasties, or more than the most prosperous period of feudal society such as Han, Tang, Yuan, Ming, and Qing, which can be said to be the peak of ancient economic and cultural development, and even the most developed dynasty in the world at that time. But at the same time, it is also the most "poor and weak" in the history of the great unified empire.
The Song dynasty set a precedent for the first time that China was swallowed up by a foreign nation as a whole, and became a watershed in history and culture with the national policy of changing the bloodiness of the nation.
Zhao Kuangyin easily gained power from orphans and widows in the warlord melee of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and had a natural suspicion of military generals, so he had the right to release the army with a glass of wine. He once lamented to Zhao Pu: "If you choose a hundred civilian officials to be sent all over the country to become local officials, even if they all become corrupt officials, they will not be able to catch up with the scourge that a military general may bring." ”
In his view, the corruption of civilian officials is not a thing, but the meritocracy of military attaches is a big problem.
Under such a thought, the status of military attaches is very inferior to that of civilian officials. The powers related to the army have been decomposed, the right to transfer troops and the right to command the troops have been separated, and it is almost impossible for the generals of the army to support the troops and respect themselves, which has led to the situation of "the soldier is not an impermanent commander, the marshal is not an impermanent division", "the soldier is not used to the general, and the soldier will not know the soldier".
Most of the time, the commanders of the troops at all levels were civilians and eunuchs, and the military generals had to act under the control of civilian officials who did not understand the military.
In order to stifle the ability of the bureaucratic class to usurp power and interfere in government, Zhao Kuangyin painstakingly planned a system of overlapping structures and scattered sand, thus creating a group of bureaucratic compradors and corrupt officials who were extremely discreet, irresponsible, and faint to the extreme.
In the field of culture, Zhao Kuangyin advocated vigorously advocating the foot, and this small-foot national policy that destroyed the overall system of China plunged the whole society into a deformed and pathological aesthetic. This wind has spread for thousands of years and brought endless sorrow to China.
The Song dynasty not only wrapped small feet on women, but also wrapped small feet in the society, economy and culture of the country. A nation wrapped in small feet cannot be strong.
His successors even adopted Zhu Cheng's theory, changing the purpose of the original Confucianism. It has become a spiritual tool to control the people, comprehensively restricting and stifling national individuality and development.
Under the guidance of Zhao Kuangyin's national policy of advocating the literati, the literary style of the Song Dynasty was romantically weakened, but this romantic national style made the martial generals weak, and the literati were also intoxicated in the love of Qingqing and me, men and women. Behind the appearance of prosperity is the loss of national fighting spirit.
The Song Dynasty became a watershed in Chinese history and culture.
There was a huge gap in the social outlook, form, and quality of personnel in Chinese history before and after the Song Dynasty. The "shangwu spirit" since the pre-Qin and Han and Tang dynasties has been completely replaced by the "middle way" of Song Ming's theory.
Before the Song Dynasty, there was still no lack of backbone and a sense of national justice, and there were the sayings of "throwing pen from Rong" and "wrapping the body of the eldest husband Ma Ge"; among the bloody men who were not afraid of rape and violence were Jing Ke, who sacrificed himself to stab the King of Qin; there was Tian Heng, who led five hundred heroes to commit collective suicide to repay the master; Zhang Liang, a weak scholar who assassinated the first emperor of Tai in Bolangsha to avenge the fall of Korea; Wei Qing and Huo Qi, who attacked the Xiongnu in the north and sealed the wolf Juxu; there was Ban Chao, who threw his pen from Rong and went deep into the western region to expand his territory; there was Su Wu, who was detained by the Xiongnu in a desolate and barbaric land and grazed for nineteen years and still did not change the Han Festival ......
Heroines who do not let their eyebrows be raised also abound, such as female marshals who can fight well; Mulan who serves in the army for her father...
However, after the Song Dynasty, the fierce wind degenerated into the cowardly doctrine of a good man and not a soldier. Traitors and traitors continue to emerge, causing immeasurable losses.
Looking at how the Song Dynasty went to the outside world, the Song Dynasty suppressed the country for three hundred years, but the invasion of foreign enemies was to fight if they could fight, and if they could not fight, they would spend money to buy taiping, and they were afraid of the enemy like a tiger.
The Northern Song Dynasty once accounted for 15% of the state's finances when the annual currency paid for the Liao and Western Xia. The Song Dynasty's national policy of "buying security with money" lasted for more than three hundred years.
The famous "Alliance of Liaoyuan" in song history brought 117 years of peace (1005-1121 AD) to the Northern Song Dynasty, at the cost of paying the Liao state 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 silk horses per year.
Under this capitulationism, the imperial court was full of slaves and treacherous villains. Throughout the Song Dynasty, there were many great traitors, such as Cai Jing, Qin Ju Jia Xiangdao, and so on. With a faint monarch and a large number of treacherous courtiers, it is no wonder that the Song Dynasty has always been worried about internal and external troubles.
Under such a national policy, Yue Fei, who had great ambitions, heavy soldiers, outstanding military achievements, and was deeply loved by soldiers and the people, naturally became the "heart disease" of the Zhao Dynasty. Therefore, once the Zhao Dynasty used Yue Fei's blood to fight the Golden Army to increase the chips for peace talks and basically reach a corner of peace, Yue Fei would lose the value of existence.
The series of national policies formulated by Zhao Kuangyin have comprehensively shackled and stifled the people's personality and development power, and finally put the situation at an extreme disadvantage. In the long course of history, there have been many emperors and courtiers who have brought calamity to the country and the people, but they have only exerted an impact in a certain aspect. However, zhao Kuangyin was the one who could deeply affect the national culture and then to strategic thinking, the armament system, the foreign strategy, and almost all levels of its negative influence.
Driven by capitulationism, first the Liao and Jin, then the Mongols and the Manchu Qing successively took the opportunity to rise up and use their iron hooves to wantonly ravage the Central Plains, causing tens of millions of people to be brutally killed, resulting in a drastic decline in population.
Although there was a short-term ZTE of the so-called Kangqian prosperous era later, after all, it was under the abuses, from force to humanistic concepts, it was already morbid, and when the Westerners came to the ship and cannon, the history of national humiliation in the past hundred years naturally began.
The 5,000-year history of Yangyang China is indeed worth savoring. Just as the so-called reading of history can be wise, let us take fewer detours, and understanding historical knowledge is especially important for a person's growth. In this regard, for children's history learning, a set of "Half-Hour Comics" invested by Zhang Quanling, a former CCTV sister, and written by Chen Lei, a webcomic master "two mixed children", has attracted much attention so far, and has sold more than 30 million copies.
The book brings history to life through hilarious comics, coupled with modern passages. Now many primary and secondary school teachers will recommend this "Half-Hour Comic Chinese History" when recommending the required reading list, on the grounds that it is both interesting, can arouse children's interest in learning history, and can also help them remember some boring knowledge points.
In terms of content, this set of books has 3 core features:
1. Witty humor has changed people's boring perception of history. In Chen Lei's pen, the Spring and Autumn Warring States are like a class, the Great Qin dynasty is addicted to death, the Three Kingdoms are the three major battles, the Wei and Jin dynasties are chaotic, the Southern and Northern Dynasties are rich in losers, and the Tang Dynasty is the most dazzling national style. Every piece of history, every change of dynasty, is firmly remembered in the light and humorous passages.
For example, the paragraph in the book that introduces Xiao He, before it was only known that "Success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He", but it is not what Xiao He is doing, this can be clear: Who is Xiao He? He is Liu Bang's "logistics minister" and "god-level otaku", no matter how Liu Bang fights over and over on the front line, no matter how badly he is beaten, there will always be substitutes and grain and grass delivered in time, and the next day the order will arrive, and the brothers on the road call him "Xiao Shunfeng".
For example, when it comes to the Hongmen banquet, Xiang Zhuang is holding a kitchen knife, while Liu Bang on the side sees it and sweats coldly, swallowing his saliva and saying: "Xiang Ye, I have drunk too much wine, can I go to the bathroom?" Then he ran away! This was the first time that Xiang Yu had committed a second offense, and it was also the first time that Liu Bang had confessed to it, lost his temper and actually used urine.
2. Provide schools and parents with the idea of "exploring new education models". At a seminar for principals of primary and secondary schools in many provinces, a principal introduced: "Chen Lei has cleared up the historical context of the past three thousand years through hand-painting and passages. He is best at lifting the pretentious appearance of history, omitting insignificant details, and deciphering each piece of history into a paragraph with the joy of the times, making you laugh every three seconds. And while you laugh out of your abs, you already know history unconsciously. ”
Many parents also said: "Chen Lei used a set of "Half-Hour Comic Series" to bring children out of mobile phone games, even we adults love to watch, the content is witty and humorous, and the readability is very strong. The success of Chen Lei's comic history is also a successful exploration of a new education model.
3. Endorsed by authoritative experts, the content can withstand scrutiny. As a historical popular science book, although there are many passages in it, these passages have been strictly controlled by the most authoritative historians in China, and children will not learn the knowledge of "cottage". Therefore, this set of books reconstructs a new Chinese historical system with modern buzzwords on the basis of professional knowledge.
Some memory experts say: "Picture memory is 3-10 times better than text memory". Parents now attach great importance to cultivating their children's reading ability, but if children do not like to read dry text, they may wish to choose cartoons in the form of "pictures + text" to slowly stimulate children's interest in reading.
Don't look at the various humorous passages in the book, in fact, every historical story has a historical basis and has been strictly reviewed and checked by a number of authoritative historical experts. Chen Lei said: "I want to make sure that every paragraph and sentence in the book can withstand scrutiny!" ”
If your child is also suffering from learning history and poetry too difficult, and has no interest in literature, you may wish to read Chen Lei's "Half-Hour Comics" series, which was rated as "a must-read book for primary and secondary school students in the country", which can help children cultivate their interest in learning in funny and maximize their historical knowledge in a happy atmosphere.